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One gets the impression the printer necessary for a lens eats the cost difference.
As 3D printers become increasingly commonplace, I have noticed various ways of accessing a 3D printer without having to own one — my local library has one nowadays
Mine does too but I don't even think it could do something clear, nonetheless a lens of any type. I think we'll see some amount of time pass before that sort of machine is readily available to the public in that context and time after that before enough people get handy enough with the maintenance for precision work like that.